True Grit (2010) (2010)

True Grit (2010) Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross's (Hailee Steinfeld) father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.

Do you like films with strong female leads? Do you like to watch "the fairer sex" prove that they’re not as fair as society has often portrayed them? Then you’ll get a kick out of this supercut tribute to women in prominent action movie roles…literally.

It's not just the stellar cast and the Oscar-nominated director that makes Prisoners look like more than your average kidnapping thriller. Like many of the most gorgeous films of the last decade Prisoners was shot by cinematographer Roger Deakins, the 10-time Oscar nominee whose work on films like No Country for Old Men, Skyfall and The Man Who Wasn't There has created some of the most gorgeous images in film history

While film history is full of great, well-developed characters that stand on their own, there’s something to be said for a great trio. Larry, Curly and Moe, for example, may have each been funny and interesting on their own, but together, these characters formed a comedic connection, which would be celebrated for decades to come. Sometimes the joining of three great characters creates an on-screen dynamic that’s truly worth much more than the sum of its parts.

We’ve got two new releases coming up this week, and I haven’t the slightest idea how they’ll fare at the box office. Contrary to what you may have heard, one of them IS a bummer, but the other is showing early promise

True Grit has been called “the western you should see if you only see one western every three years”. It’s been hailed as ”enormously entertaining”. Critics and audiences alike fell in love with it, almost from the moment it was released. In his review of the film Roger Ebert describes the audience at a sneak preview he attended as...

The 14-year-old will be aging up a little bit for the part, playing a 16-year-old girl whose memory is erased at 4:33 in the morning each night while she sleeps, but who can remember events from the future. When she meets a boy she likes and has no future memories of him, she gets understandably worried about her future with him.

The Coen Brothers have been knee-deep in the Western genre for a couple of years now. Ok technically No Country For Old Men isn’t a Western, they’d be the first to say so, but it really feels like one.

Leave it to Jeff Bridges to somehow wind up playing another drunk, slovenly character obsessed over and quoted ad nauseum by random fanatics congregated together. Unlike with Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski

Everyone everywhere celebrates Christmas a little differently. Sure, some of the traditions are the same – Christians put a Christmas tree in the living room, Jewish people go to Chinese restaurants, etc. – but other

It’s impossible to be surprised anymore when Joel and Ethan Coen put out an incredible film. Writing and directing roughly one project per year, the pair is never tied down to genre or type, instead always making the

The Coen Brothers remake of True Grit is fast piling up critical acclaim. With a few weeks to go till its release, expect to see a lot more. Though the original movie version of this tale earned John Wayne an Oscar, the truth is that aside from Wayne’s performance

If you're like me, you're still trying to recover from the trailer for the Coen brother's True Grit that premiered a few weeks back. Everything about it looks stunning, from Roger Deakins' cinematography to

OK, the music is a little overly intense in the beginning, especially compared to the spare, haunting vocals from the teaser, but by the time it segues into a Johnny Cash track you'll have forgotten all about it

If you're not eagerly anticipating True Grit's release this December, well, I'm not sure how to talk to you. Not only is it the next movie from the Coen Brothers, not only is it an honest-to-God Western directed by

If you aren't excited for the Coen Brother's adaptation of True Grit, I'm not sure there's anything anyone can do to help you. The film has a stellar cast that includes Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Barry Pepper

With the possible exception of Christopher Nolan's Inception, there's not a 2010 movie I'm more excited about than True Grit. It's great enough to look forward to the Coen Brothers taking on a classic Western

When Matt Damon showed up to the Green Zone premiere on Thursday, the celebrity blogs went nuts, not because of who he was with or because of what he was wearing, rather it was because of the thin, high-school mustache he was sporting

Well, pilgrim, you've got yourself just under a year to find yourself an eye patch, a cowboy hat and a six-shooter so you can roll up to the theater in full Rooster Cogburn gear and scare the shit out of anyone headed to see Joel and Ethan Coen's True Grit remake.

Hot damn! I usually hate remakes (particularly remakes of films that I love), as each one serves as a reminder that Hollywood is slowly running out of ideas. But with the most recent casting announcements for the Coen's remake

Jeff Bridges may be reuniting with the Coen Brothers for the first time since the underappreciated greatness of The Big Lebowski. Hold on there professional Walter impersonators, they’re not planning a sequel